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Written by well-known oral historian and author Dr. Tomás Mac Conmara, Days of Hunger, The Clare Volunteers and the Mountjoy Hunger Strike of 1917, breaks fresh ground on the often overlooked year of 1917 and shines a light on how events in that year in county Clare helped bring about a new landscape in Irish politics.
Mac Conmara has previously published books on Frongoch internment camp as well as Clare’s All Ireland hurling journey in 1914 but is perhaps better known for his work in oral history and folklore collection across the county. In this book, Mac Conmara examines in granular detail events across 1917 and carefully explains their significance in the historic struggle for Irish independence.
In the first year after the Easter Rising of 1916, trepidation may have existed within the British establishment, but it would be only in the summer of 1917 that the confrontation, which had been anticipated began to develop. Mac Conmara argues that in Clare, decisions taken by the Volunteer leadership, engineered an open confrontation of British rule and brought relations to a head.
Paperback, illustrated.
